Tuesday, November 11, 2014

2-state solution, remember that?

It's very easy to give up on the two-state solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, increasingly difficult to think the Oslo idea still
has a shot . It's been subverted from both sides, Palestinian and Israeli. ISIS
type monstrosity in the region gives Israelis every reason to fear the spread
of such into the West Bank. And the Netanyahu government needs not even that excuse
to give the two-state solution no more than the bare minimum of lip service, while
building settlements at an accelerated clip. Now there is the new nonsense on
the Temple Mount with its potential to detonate unto religious war.

My idea is that the Temple and its Mount — the Wall together
with the Mosques — be teleported to Mt. Everest, the dark side of the moon, or
Mars.

Wherever there is the best price for long-term parking. We'd
like to get those sites back at some point, when we might be ready, maybe in a
thousand years.

I've been advocating thus for a long time, but no tractor
beam has come to my aid.

Still, there is actually some reason to resist despair about
Oslo. As J.J. Goldberg keeps arguing in The Forward, a substantial segment of
the Israeli army and security apparatus advocates publicly for a Palestinian
State alongside Israel. These ex-generals and spy chiefs see much less of a security
downside to a Palestinian state than a pronounced uptick for peace. They openly
challenge Netanyahu to pay heed.